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This time it’s the legendary Mini Cooper in proper British Racing green. This was a fun build and a bit simpler than the Ferrari I built a while back. I think the brick count was a fair bit lower too. My parents had a Mini when I was a child and I have a lot of fond memories of various days out and holidays that revolved around a family of 4 squeezing into such a little car. Building this model brought a lot of those memories back. I’m delighted with the finished product, it features opening doors, reclining seats with adjustable headrests, opening bonnet with engine bay and a boot that reveals a removable picnic basket and blanket! Highly recommended to both Lego collectors and anyone who just wants a pretty cool model Mini to display.

After a recent trip to the Lego Discovery centre in the Trafford Center in Manchester I noticed that they have started doing some very cool looking cars as part of their ‘Creator’ series. My wife kindly treated me to the Ferrari F40 model (after I dropped some pretty big hints that I fancied it) which I have just finished building. The box contains almost 1,200 peices of lego and took me several hours to build but given the cost of the kit I’d expect nothing less. Rather than just show pictures of the finished build I thought it might be fund to have a go at capturing the build, stop-motion style… it hasn’t turned out quite as well as I would have liked (probably didn’t take enough pictures) but here goes anyway!